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HERVEY Bay doctor Shaun Rudd compares the Wide Bay's obesity crisis to a "slow moving flood" and wants it declared a state of emergency.

Australian Medical Association Queensland president Dr Rudd released the organisation's election wish-list yesterday, warning eight out of 10 Queenslanders would be too fat for their own good within just five years.

"In the Wide Bay region, 64% of the population, or 101,000 people, are already overweight or obese," Dr Rudd said.

"This is disastrous for the health system - like a slow moving flood or smouldering bushfire."

"It's crunch time for the next Queensland Government. We have to stem the obesity tide now, before it swamps our hospitals."